Plate Tectonics Review

Question 1

A developer tears down trees on a hill in Seattle where it rains often. Does tearing down the trees increase erosion?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 2

Who is the well known scientist whose theory of Continental Drift was first rejected when he was alive?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Question 3

What is created when a piece of continental crust converges with an oceanic crust?

Accepted Answer

Volcanoes

Question 4

What does it mean to be stable?

Accepted Answer

not changing or fluctuating

Question 5

Earth is considered stable.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

When two plates collide, it is called a _____________.

Accepted Answer

Convergent boundary

Question 7

What are pieces of evidence Alfred Wegener used to prove his Theory of Continental Drift?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 8

The areas where plates meet are called _____________.

Accepted Answer

Boundaries

Question 9

Large amounts of rain, loss of trees and vegetation due to wildfires or the construction of homes and buildings causes

Accepted Answer

Landslides

Question 10

What seperates plates?

Accepted Answer

boundaries

Question 11

When plates diverge, what is formed from magma?

Accepted Answer

New Crust

Question 12

What is the theory that states the Earth's lithosphere is cracked into large plates moving slowly over the mantle.

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics Theory

Question 13

Where are plate boundaries?

Accepted Answer

both continents and oceans

Question 14

The Earth continues to change every second.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Currents of water cause the tectonic plates to shift and move.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

What is created at a divergent boundary when two pieces of oceanic crust are separating?

Accepted Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 17

What is the difference between weathering, erosion, and deposition?

Accepted Answer

Weathering breaks down, erosion transports, deposition is dropping off

Question 18

When two plates separate and go opposite directions, it is called _____________.

Accepted Answer

Divergent Boundary

Question 19

What are the pieces of evidence to support the continental drift theory?

Accepted Answer

fossils on different continents seperated by water have been found, mountain ranges match up on seperate continents, fossils of warm climate organisms have been found in cold regions, shape of continents look as if they could go together like puzzle pieces

Question 20

Boundaries can be anywhere on Earth as long as it's where two plates meet.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

What causes the cracked plates of the lithosphere to move?

Accepted Answer

convection currents of magma

Question 22

What is created at a convergent boundary where two continental plates are converging?

Accepted Answer

Mountains

Question 23

When plates slide past each other, it is called a _____________.

Accepted Answer

Transform Boundary

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